Hi Piotr, On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Piotr Legiecki <piot...@ams.edu.pl> wrote: > Hi > > I wonder if you know the Surfulator program http://www.surfulater.com/? > It is very nice kind of outliner/knowledge soft. It is of course only > windows/commercial product. among its rich features I'd like to point to > some very useful ones: > - tagging > - date aware
Never heard of it. Basket already has a limited form of tagging though. > > If we compare basket (or any other outliner) to photo management (like > digikam) software we notice they are very similar. They both manage data > (and it does not matter that one is image and the other one text) and > the tasks to search for specific item are generally the same: you may > search by: > a) name > b) date > c) tags > Those are the main (IMHO) search categories. > > So if digikam has all those nice and useful features why not to have > them in basket? > Because nobody wrote them yet and the digikam team is about 4 times bigger than the basket team. > Actually basket has good staring points to make it possible. It has of > course very nice live search by names. It has nice tagging support, but > not used to its full potential. It lacks date awareness. > What is this whole date awareness thing you talk about? You've brought it up twice now and have yet to explain what it is. > Why I mentioned surfulator above? Because it implemented all those > features and they work great together! > So? It doesn't really matter unless they're implemented in Basket, right? :) > It is done in very similar fashion as on digikam (or other wise photo > management soft excluding picassa). > The main (name) tree (with folders/subfolders/items) is done in > classical hierarchy just like in basket. The date tree shows items in > chronological order and tags tree show the items grouped by tags. Simple > and very effective. Just try it. Only one click away from those three > views of our notes. > > From my (as a user of basket 1.x) point of view basket has all the > information required to manage the items in a way mentioned above. We > have time stamps with every note, we have tags. So it is only a matter > of using their potential. > > I hope I have explained it clearly? > No, actually, you haven't - at least not enough for me to understand what you're getting at. IMHO, you do more comparing to Surfulator when it would have been more useful to describe how those features should work in regards to Basket. > Regards > P. > Thanks -- Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Basket-devel mailing list Basket-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/basket-devel
